The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-05
EOCAE. NEWS.
1uitocs arc thick.

Mosquitoes are thick.
Bruna's excursion to Cape May and Sea
Isle City next Thursday.
The picnic of the Baptist Sunday-sehool
will be held III the nth inst.
We call attention to the advertisement
of Benz. II. Kelly in another column.
James NJ. Campbell, of Woodstown, drew
the watch in Whites watch club last Mon
day.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Frecholdcrs will be held in Salem
next Wednesday.
The mail from points in South Jersey
that formerly arrived on the late train now
makes connection with the carly train and
arrives at five o'clock.
A horse owned by Walter Bassctt, near
TIarrisonville Station, ran away last Fri
day and demolished a $50 wagon for him.
The horse was not injured.
The Salon county Medical Society held
a meeting at Woodstown on Wednesday.
The attendance was light and little but
routine business was transacted.
A few shade trees planted around the
station yard at our depot would probably
have the effect of cooling the atmosphere
there on days like those of last month.
Lovers of rood watermelons say that
freezing ~injures them. If kept in a cool,
dry place, below the ground, t~hoirhoneyed
flavor is not deadened as when frozen in a
refrigerator.
Workmen are engaged in running an
additional telegraph wire along the
Swedesboro branch of West Jersey Rail
road. The wire will run from Camden to
Bridgeton, via Salem.
Aaron Cole 6 Bro. are furnishing the
big lumber for a vessel nOw being built at
Paulsboro. A log that is fifty feet long
and will cut "a inches square, will soon be
sawed out at their mill.
The Changers picnic at the River Shore
on Tuesday was not as largely attended as
it would have been had not the day been
threatening and stormy. A good time was
enjoyed, however, by those who did at
tend.
The bridge on the Salem road, near
Henry w. Austin's, will be taken up on
Thursday of next week, for rebuilding,
and will be up about five days. Persons
who contemplate using that road at that
time will do well to remember this.
The following officers of Woodstown
Lodge, No. los, l. o. G. T., were installed
on Tuesday evening: C. T., Chas. Reeves;
Y. T., Mary Coles; Sec, Lulu Wright;
Fin. Sec, Lizzie Broadway; Treas, w. b..
Hitchner; Chap, Lizzie Carr; Mar, Harry
Richman; Guard. Maggie Shull; Sen,
Richard Flitcraft.
The travel TO Atlantic City, on Saturday
and Sunday, over the Camden and Atlantic
and West Jersey Railroads, was the
heaviest ever known. On Saturday one
hundred and eighty-three loaded cars
went down over the two roads and on sum
day scventy-five, making a total of 25S. 1t
may be safely estimated that these cars
contained in the ncighborhood of $1,000
people.
At the coming annual meeting of the
Baptist Association of New Jersey, to be
held in Burlington, an effort will be made
to effect a division of the association. 1t
is claimed that the organization is too
large for effective work. Favorable re-
sponses have been received from all the
churches in Camden, Pembcrton, Mount
Holly, Burlington, Riverton, Medford,
Mooresto wn, IIaddonfield and Cramer's
Hill in answer to a circular proposing the
division.
Clerk j. p. Flynn, of the Board of Free
holders of this county, recently received a
communication from Secretary of State
Henry G. Kelsey, in regard to the patent
ballot boxes. The Secretary states that
though it is a matter with which he has
nothing to do officially, he would advise
the Clerk to conform to the law and order
the boxes, and let the danger ofthreatened
suits, &C., take care of itself" On receipt
Of the letter Mr.. Flynn ordered the boxes
of the manufacturers, reserving the right
to demand such indemnity as might be
given to other counties.